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some thoughts from the opposition ...
« on: October 31, 2020, 12:13:22 PM »
https://archive.is/jALI4

Story in The Atlantic

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With Biden embracing America’s evolution and Trump appealing unrestrainedly to the white voters most fearful of it, the 2020 campaign marks a new peak in the most powerful trend shaping politics in this century. Over the past two decades, and especially since Barack Obama’s election in 2008, voters have re-sorted among the parties and thus reconfigured the central fault line between them. Today Republicans and Democrats are divided less by class or region than by attitudes toward the propulsive demographic, cultural, and economic shifts remaking 21st-century America. On one side, Republicans now mobilize what I’ve called a “coalition of restoration”; on the other, Democrats assemble a “coalition of transformation.”
evolution vs fear
transormation vs restoration


There certainly is a divide in how things are perceived ...
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I’ve often said that modern American politics can be reduced to a single question: How long can Paducah tell Seattle what to do? Next week the answer may be that Seattle—that is, America’s future—has mobilized to reclaim control of the nation’s direction from Paducah—its past—and perhaps by a resounding margin.

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With Trump solidifying the GOP’s transformation into a “white-identity party … a nationalist party, not unlike parties you see in Europe, … you see the Democratic Party becoming the party of literally everyone else,” as the longtime Republican political consultant Michael Madrid, a co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, told me.
Trump has pretty much ignored his white base and spent all his time campaigning for everyone else's vote.
Lincoln Project liars spreading delusional lies.
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Re: some thoughts from the opposition ...
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2020, 12:21:33 PM »
The usual Trump = rich privileged white men who fear the rising power of POC and women
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Re: some thoughts from the opposition ...
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2020, 12:32:12 PM »
And the usual denigration of most of America as being unfit to serve the elite who live in a few large, coastal cities.
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Re: some thoughts from the opposition ...
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2020, 08:53:47 PM »
CHAZ/CHOP Seattle as America's future - yeah, go with that message, Lefties.  :lol:
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Re: some thoughts from the opposition ...
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2020, 07:48:23 AM »
CHAZ/CHOP Seattle as America's future - yeah, go with that message, Lefties.  :lol:

Talk about a lack of self awareness right?  :laugh:
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Re: some thoughts from the opposition ...
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2020, 01:41:47 PM »
More thoughts from the opposition on Sean Parnell's garage:

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